The mothership has gotten heat from developers and pundits over its apparent inaction vis-a-vis app piracy, a problem observers say has only gotten worse in recent months. Although criticism of Apple is unlikely to subside, the biggest iOS pirate site has been pushed off shore and the problem has moved to countries ‘that do not have copyright laws.’
Remember when the original iPhone came out sans 3G and lots of self-described smart people pooh-poohed Apple’s smartphone because it wasn’t cutting edge? Ultimately, Cupertino’s wisdom in making that decision was borne out because in 2007 3G just wasn’t there. We’re seeing a similar chain of events playing out now.
‘Tis the season to over eat and laze about, yet you need not let the time go completely to waste. Curl up with a nice iBook and listen to free internet radio. Or, why not shop, shop ’til you drop. How’s about a few laughs a la Apple’s hot new digital assistant, Siri — your new iPhone 4S is a source of endless amusement.
Even the curmudgeonly Apple analysts are predicting iPhone sales in the 30 million unit range for the fourth quarter and that translates into millions given as gifts. If that means you, although you can certainly download games for a bit of fun, perhaps the most entertaining feature of your brand spanking new iPhone 4S came built in.
Google’s Andy Rubin claims that 700,000 Android handsets get activated every day. While that’s a lot phones, users seem to be only using them as — surprise, surprise — dumb devices. Thereupon, no better proof of this is Apple iOS’s near complete dominance of mobile shopping with fresh statistics showing more than 90 percent of the over 3 billion sessions tracked originated from an iPhone or iPad.
It is a victory for the Cupertino kids, but only just. Because the International Trade Commission threw out a second finding of patent infringement against the Taiwanese cellphone maker and thereby narrowed the final ruling to a single relatively minor patent, it’s unlikely that any HTC devices will ever be blocked from the US market.
Is your shopping finished yet? Even if it is, chances are you will be heading out again after Christmas to do returns and spend those gift cards. To make the best use of your time, not mention find the available coupons and deals, you must be properly armed and here are five great free apps to get you on the right path.
An almost surreal war of words has been playing out over the last few days. Whereas Apple centric news outlets and fan blogs have been singing Apple’s praises for bringing A5 processor manufacturing “back” to the US, a whole host of others have gone to great lengths to explain why it doesn’t matter in the grand scheme of things.
So, you’ve got an iPhone 4S and need a new washer-dryer, but your parents aren’t available or otherwise unhelpful — who ya gonna ask? Siri, of course, and now she and Apple search partner extraordinaire (answers not a results page) have appliances, Macs, TVs, iPads and more.
The iPhone changed everything. iPad changed, or at the very least boosted, everything. A proof thereof is the fact that news reading on the iPhone was kludgey at best and just as likely to induce a headache. However, Apple’s tablet really changed mobile news reading and now the innovation’s coming back to the source.
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